{"id":27345,"date":"2011-07-19T15:32:57","date_gmt":"2011-07-19T15:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/local_paper_editorial_on_the_debt_talks-this_is_not_a_poker_game\/"},"modified":"2011-07-19T15:32:57","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T15:32:57","slug":"local_paper_editorial_on_the_debt_talks-this_is_not_a_poker_game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=27345","title":{"rendered":"Local Paper Editorial on the Debt Talks&#8211;This is not a poker game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In February, President Obama submitted his budget. The CBO reported that it would steeply boost the national debt.<\/p>\n<p>In April, the president released a revised deficit-reduction plan so short on detail that the CBO deemed it too vague to evaluate.<\/p>\n<p>Also in April, the Senate unanimously rejected the president&#8217;s February budget. Since then, the Democratic leadership in the Senate and the White House have put forward no clear budget approach&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/news\/2011\/jul\/17\/this-is-not-a-poker-game\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In February, President Obama submitted his budget. The CBO reported that it would steeply boost the national debt. In April, the president released a revised deficit-reduction plan so short on detail that the CBO deemed it too vague to evaluate.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=27345\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,50,209,670,582,589,149,617,675,616,151,667,618,673,587,596,669,584,672,668],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-budget","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-house-of-representatives","category-medicare","category-office-of-the-president","category-politics-in-general","category-president-barack-obama","category-senate","category-social-security","category-taxes","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007","category-the-national-deficit","category-the-u-s-government","category-the-united-states-currency-dollar-etc","category-treasury-secretary-timothy-geithner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}